UPDATE: The Latest 'NPR Policy On Use Of Potentially Offensive Language' : MemmosStandards & Practices Editor Mark Memmott writes occasional notes about the issues journalists encounter and the way NPR handles them. They often expand on topics covered in the Ethics Handbook.

This is a good time for a reminder, because one slipped through the cracks on us last week: If there's potentially offensive language in a piece intended for broadcast — even if the words have been bleeped — stations need to be alerted in the DACS line. Listeners and readers online deserve to be warned as well, of course.

Clarification: No offensive words were heard in the piece referred to above. The words were bleeped.